Ultra high-field SWI of the substantia nigra at 7T: reliability and consistency of the swallow-tail sign
| 作者： | Manuel A. Schmidt, Tobias Engelhorn, Franz Marxreiter, Juergen Winkler, Stefan Lang, Stephan Kloska, Philipp Goelitz, Arnd Doerfler |
| 作者单位： |
1University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 刊名： | BMC Neurology, 2017, Vol.17 (1) |
| 来源数据库： | Springer Journal |
| DOI： | 10.1186/s12883-017-0975-2 |
| 关键词： | Nigrosome 1; Parkinson’s disease; Swallow-tail sign; SWI; Ultra high-field MRI; 7 tesla; |
| 英文摘要： | The loss of the swallow-tail sign of the substantia nigra has been proposed for diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. Aim was to evaluate, if the sign occurs consistently in healthy subjects and if it can be reliably detected with high-resolution 7T susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI). |
| 原始语种摘要： | The loss of the swallow-tail sign of the substantia nigra has been proposed for diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. Aim was to evaluate, if the sign occurs consistently in healthy subjects and if it can be reliably detected with high-resolution 7T susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI). |
